Universidad Del Valle

Lectura de textos contables III

Prof. Jorge Herrera
Name: william ceron pacheco Code: 1827355

1. When a river receives a lot of extra water it may flood. During a flood there is plenty of water,
and most people wouldn’t think that dehydration was a serious risk, but flood waters are mostly
polluted and not safe to drink. People who drink the contaminated water may suffer from illnesses
or diseases such as typhoid. You can prepare for flooding by filling many containers with fresh
clean drinking water. You can also use sandbags to protect your house and to soak up the water.
Be prepared and be safe.

How is the text structured? (1p) Problem/Solution

2. Complete the sentences with correct tense (present, past or future perfect tense), use the verb
in the brackets. (1p)
a) I already have done (to do) my homework. Now I can go for a walk.
b) By this time, next week Bill will have passed(to pass) the exam. future
c) I hope it will have stoped(to stop) snowing before we have to go.
d) I phoned to my friend to find out if he had come (to come) home.
e) Autumn will has come (to come). It is October now.
f) The film had started (to star) when we came to the cinema.
g) The play wil hans’t started (not to start) before we get to the theatre.
h) She told me she had worked (to work) in France before.
i) When I arrive to the airport I realized that I have forgotten (to forget) my passport.
j) The Greens will has finished (to finish) repairing their stadium before next summer

3. Complete with the right tense expressing the conditional, use the verbs in parenthesis
(1p).

a). If you take my advice, you be (be) happy.

b). If you lend (lend) me some books, I will give them back in two weeks.
c). I would have sent (send) a letter, if I had found her address.
d). If she comes (come) here I will tell her about the film.
e). If I had won (win) the lottery I would leave my country.
f). If I didn't have a mobile phone, my life (not / be) wouldn’t be complete.
g). Okay, I (get) will get the popcorn if you buy the drinks.
h). If I (tell) had told you a secret, you would be sure to leak it.
i). I would have sent(send) her a letter if I had found her address.
J). She wouldn´t stolen(not/steal) the bread if she hadn't been hungry

Identify and underline in the text below five passive voices and five connector with their
functions. Write them down in the chart. (1p)

Quality of a product can be measured by the health and safety, effectiveness, and inherent
goodness of the product. The health and safety of a product examines whether the product
performs to expected health, safety and privacy standards. For a packaged food product, its health
and safety would not be captured by how healthy the food product is, but by the costs associated
with foodborne illnesses from product recalls. Other metrics that can capture the health and
safety of a product include controversies or data leaks associated with the product.

The effectiveness of a product is whether the product works as it should. For packaged food
products, effectiveness would be where the nutritional value of the product is captured. For
example, the whole grains, fiber, added sugar, sodium, and trans-fat content of a product can be
translated to costs associated with changes in risk of coronary heart disease or diabetes. Where
effectiveness cannot be readily observed, customer satisfaction can be used as a proxy measure.

Lastly, the necessity dimension of the product examines whether the product provides some basic
need to the population. Elasticity can be used to identify products that are basic needs. Some
other relevant metrics for estimating how the product addresses a basic need include global
economic losses avoided through the product. For example, the basic need component of a
utilities company providing water would be captured through the averted economic losses from
sanitation. Similarly, the basic need component of certain food products would be the averted
economic losses of starvation.

Passive voice sentences Connectors and functions

1. would not be 1. as function: ______reason____________

2. can be translated
2. to function: ______porpuse____________
3. cannot be readily
3. for function: ____ porpuse ______________
4. can be used
4. and function: _____addition_____________
5. would be the averted
5. but function: _______contrast ___________

5. Complete the next paragraphs with the correct verbs in passive voice. The verbs are given in
the brackets. (1p)

1. The dinner isn’t cooked (not/cook) yet. The vegetables are cut (cut) right now. The potatoes
were bolied (boil) in the morning, so now we need only some time to prepare the salad, meat and
sauce.

2. This book is read (read) at our lesson right now. To be honest it is not interesting, but a
discussion about the characters of the book will be hold (hold) next lesson, so we have no choice.